Today in Merck Sharp and Dohme Ltd. v. Shionogi & Co Ltd., [2016] EWHC 2989 (Pat)(High Court 2016)(Arnold, J.), the High Court invalidated Shionogi’s European Patent (UK) No. 1 422 218. This patent ...
In an email responsive to the Nov. 23rd post (attached below), PTO official Patrick Ross has correctly noted that “Roundtable 2 [is] being held December 5, 2016, *** [in] Stanford, ...
According to the New York Times (quoted below) President-Elect Trump is expected to nominate a new Commerce Secretary and Deputy Commerce Secretary. This will then open the door to the ...
Reports indicate that the EPO Board of Appeals is to be moved from its downtown Munich location along the Isar River seven miles away to Haar. Next Door Haar: The ...
The Global Dossier Initiative is now up and running! It provides the American (or a counterpart overseas) Patent Examiner with the full prior art citations from parallel prosecution files of participating ...
Steve Penner was a patent attorney who was a partner at Lathrop & Gage in Boulder. He earned his legal degree at the University of Colorado, following an earlier career ...
As her time at the PTO winds down, the Hon. Michelle K. Lee has announced yet another “Roundtable” to deal with subject matter patent-eligibility, 81 Fed. Reg. 29463 (Nov. 14, ...
The previously distributed paper, “Cabining the 800 Pound Faux Stare Decisis Gorilla in the The Room of Patent-Eligibility”, has been revised to include a new section, §VI, Biotechnology Compositions, a Different Case, pp.40-42. (1) ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark THE SALAD STATION, in standard character and design forms, finding the term merely descriptive of restaurant services. Applicant appealed, asserting that the mark ...
(1) 2018 Conference, Save the Dates: We are pleased to announce that we are planning to have the 2018 Conference again at the Naples Beach Hotel February, 17-20, 2018. (2) ...